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Photo by iamchriscummins via Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BPTMiojBlQ5/?taken-at=136283596392354]The Down-Low is our round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all over Brooklyn. –A 67-year-old woman was kicked and spat on by man on the 2 train [DNA Info
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Jewish Children’s Museum, Crown Heights via Google MapsPolice in Israel arrested a 19-year-old man Thursday for making a series of bomb threats to Jewish centers and schools across the U.S., including the Jewish Children’s Museum [/jewish-childrens-museum-evacuated-bomb-threat/] in Crown Heights and the Jewish Association Services for the Aged
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Today, a Flatbush man was indicted for murdering and dismembering his wife early this year, said Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez. Phillip Martin, 42, pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree murder and manslaughter, and concealment of a human corpse. When he was arrested on February 16, Martin confessed
Central Brooklyn
(Photo submitted by Kim Walker)Saturday morning, March 11 was Mike Smith’s funeral [/community-mourns-70th-precinct-officer-found-dead-apparent-suicide/]. He worked in Community Affairs at the 70th Precinct, so the public saw more of him than the average police officer. When Dominic Scotto transferred out of his CA Post, Detective Kim Walker, an old
Central Brooklyn
Photo via NYPDPolice are looking for a man suspected of two rather eclectic robberies only blocks apart in Midwood earlier this year. The suspect broke into Empire State Colon & Rectal Surgery at 1928 Bay Avenue between 5pm on January 31 and 8am on February 2, according to info just
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R.I.P. Ziggy (Photo by Laura Stephen via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10210420591729079&set=a.1438366997147.2058727.1172171601&type=3&theater] )Bed-Stuy resident Laura Stephen took her six-year-old pit bull mix Ziggy out for a walk Sunday night but did not return
North Western Brooklyn
Photo by u_bahn_berlin via Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BR1q0WghnXf/] Police discovered the body of a 24-year-old man on a subway car Friday evening. Passengers alerted officers to an unconscious male on board a southbound “A” train at the Jay Street/MetroTech station at approximately 8:30pm
Central Brooklyn
By Lisa Flaugh, Brooklyn News Service A former teacher at a Ditmas Park elementary school was found not guilty on all charges in Brooklyn Supreme Court on Friday after being accused of forcibly touching five girls. Omil Carrasquillo, 38, waited solemnly to hear the jury’s verdict as his family,
Central Brooklyn
After getting his day in court, Alex “Shaya” Lichtenstein, who was found guilty of bribing cops for speedy gun permits, has been sentenced to 32 months in jail, slapped with a $20,000 fine, and ordered to alcohol addiction treatment, a federal judge decided on Thursday. The jail sentence — which
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https://youtu.be/8ZwERkzn5es The NYPD are searching for the unidentified male seen in the above video and below photos in connection with a robbery in Park Slope. Police say on Monday, February 27 at approximately 12pm the suspect entered an apartment building at 7th Avenue and Garfield Place. The
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By Lisa Flaugh and Paul Frangipane Closing arguments are set for Wednesday in the trial of a former teacher who went to the witness stand to staunchly deny charges that he forcibly touched five girls who were students at a Ditmas Park elementary school. “I never, ever, ever touched a